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About four years ago, when the Kremer-Glennerster purchase-commitment idea
was germinating, Berkeley's Jean Lanjouw advanced a solution to the heart-pill
problem. The idea would cost nothing: It merely involves drug companies giving
up patent protection for heart pills and similar medicines in the poor world.
Since poor countries buy almost none of these medicines anyway, giving up patent
rights in those markets doesn't hurt the drug firms. But it would mean that
cheap generic versions of these medicines could be distributed to poor
consumers.
As well as costing nothing, the Lanjouw proposal would be simple to implement. It would require no multilateral negotiation, since it could be done with a modest fix to U.S. patent law. The fix would say that, as a condition of receiving patent protection in the U.S. market, the inventor of a drug must renounce patent rights in countries with a per capita income of less than, say, $1,000 per year. New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links
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